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Defacto Marriage Case Shines Light on Protection Laws in China

A young man of 24 years, living in Qiche town of Suqian city in Jiangsu Province, has found himself battling against his maternal mother for the rights to his inheritance, as a result of her defacto marriage. The story...

Lobster Season Highlights Food Safety as Top Priority for Nanjing

As the Chinese start their annual lobster gorge, authorities are clamping down on the many unlicensed lobster restaurants, with a focus mainly on take-out delivery services that are hardest to police. Any restaurants selling small lobster via delivery APP...

Politics off the Menu at Taiwan Food Festival in Nanjing

A culinary exchange between Taiwan and mainland China got underway at Nanjing’s Jinling Hotel today; that any reference to cross-Straits relations were deliberately avoided is significant. Back in March, a team of chefs from the iconic Nanjing hotel (the first...

Recent Changzhou Knife Attack Highlights Mistress Abuse

On 13 April 2018, the Second People’s Hospital in Changzhou, to the east of Nanjing, admitted a 33-year-old man with a knife slash to the throat, a 29-year-old woman with a slashed face and a battered 25-year-old. Officers at Xilin...

Didi Hits Back with Food Delivery Service

The war that has been raging in the China ride share market is being taken to a new front; food delivery, as the tit for tat between arch rivals Didi Chuxing and Meituan sees the two continue to encroach...

1/2 Kilo of Heroin Trafficked in Nanjing Bonnie & Clyde Style

In a story reminiscent of legendary criminal husband and wife team Bonnie and Clyde, on Saturday, 24 February, the Gulou Public Security Bureau received an almost unbelievable report from the Nanjing Police Department. According to the report, a man...

Salute to a Bridge; Nanjing Still Tops the World

34 years ago today, Nanjing opened its first pedestrian bridge, the Huaihai Lu Pedestrian Bridge, pictured. While not the most significant of anniversaries, the commemoration makes for a worthy consideration of other achievements in the field of bridge construction. With...

Demised Bicycles Unearthed in Nanjing Mass Grave

A mass grave of bicycles has been discovered in a suburb in downtown Nanjing to which no-one is owning up. Sure, the bike revolution has no doubt helped alleviate the streets of car congestion, while it has also, on...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

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